§ 22. Major NEWMANasked the Under-Secretary for War whether he is aware of the number of officers of all ranks, noncommissioned officers, and men sound in health and fit for active service who are at present employed in the Army Pay Department; and whether it is the inten- 1543 tion of the War Office to release in rotation batches of all ranks in the department for active service in the trenches and replace them by officers and men invalided from the front by wounds or disease and only fit for such light duty?
§ Mr. FORSTERI would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the answer which I gave on this subject on the 23rd February last to the hon. Baronet the Member for Mid-Armagh and the hon. and gallant Member for Ludlow.